If They Play Each Other,
Who Gets to Be the Bank?

Updated Dec. 17, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

CHARLOTTE -- This booming city now has another sign of good times: its own version of Monopoly, the board game in which would-be real-estate moguls try to accumulate the choicest properties and businesses.

But the new game, introduced earlier this month by a California company that has produced 34 other city-specific varieties of the 62-year-old classic, had a touchy issue to resolve: There's only one Boardwalk space, the...